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Also with you on this. The checkout flow is deliberately misleading. Sorry Mr. VC, you DID do your homework and the fact that you still invested is telling. First off, what is the …

No, it's a bonus, which has to be applied for. I take it from the CEO's comments that they were not clear about the T&C's, but my point was that for all of us working for under-fun…

Seriously, for all of us out there bootstrapping startups or working for companies struggling to raise funding, this all comes across as petty. $10k is a lot of money. I'm glad Jos…

I did something a bit more extreme for over a year - and I have a family to contend with. But I wasn't coding, mainly product dev a(wireframes, specs, etc) and some hacking. Schedu…

Indeed - didn't business.com sell for $1M a few years ago?

I think what he means is silly is that the post only focuses on the $1/2M spent on the domains vs the amount of expectation the company had pre-launch. With $41M, color has more th…

Will the password nazis please go home? Sure, your shell account, bank website, ebay/amazon password should be very secure, secure to the point of not needing to be prompted, but d…

As pointed out by mbesto, the UK system is pretty slick, and could be refined down to just two fields, however it would require breaking the standard flow of address input forms. W…

No, I've gotten burned twice by a Paypal transaction, but in both cases while I won the battle (dispute) I lost the war because both account holders took out the money from their a…

lol, nice try.

I'd love to get some feedback from the HN community about my startup. We are a mostly bootstrapped crew of ex-Apache guys, who wanted to solve a problem with search in the "real ti…

Your site seems to be down...

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Granted FB's first homepage was ugly, but as other have commented solid engineering != good design skills. We've all been there. ;)…

I don't think any one approach is right or wrong, but for me Facebook+Twitter drive 3-4x more traffic to my site than Google. Getting good google "juice" is important, but not as i…

Good lord, I'm an idiot. I was about to close the browser until I saw your comment :)

You don't need a real location. There are tons of services on the web where you can use a "virtual" location or the address of the service with the Companies House. I think lost in…

I guess I would question the value in striving for high PR. Modern SEO is far more about engaging with the social scene than hunting down obscure link directories/blogs. If you hav…

I've always had a high opinion about Ron despite never meeting the man. After reading this, it makes you want him as an investor that much more...

Texas? Hehe, London as well, also hail from Texas. :)

I'm accessing HN from the UK...

I used them when I bought a minified url for my site using the Haiti TLD. Seriously they have good reach ;)

Nice resource, thanks! You should also add iwantmyname.com, a good resource with excellent internationalization support...

If you need your customer to define your product strategy, you're in the wrong business. But listening to your customer to decide whether your product benefits from cup holders ins…

I guess I'm kind of in the middle on this one. I love the concept of the ipad, but hate the closed nature of the platform and am wary of Apple pushing yet another device that pimps…

I've used homeopathy here in the UK and it does work. However, I seriously doubt any GP here would refer someone to a homeopath unless already suggested by the patient. Different s…